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Re:Show HN: Headphone Enhancer for Techno and 5.1 Movies by fxtentacle on Tuesday December 30, 2014 @07:01PM (#8817522)
Haha yes you're absolutely spot on. The knowledge on how to do this has been around since 1988: http://staffwww.itn.liu.se/~karlu/courses/TNM086-2011/papers...

I tried out Dolby's Headphone offering a while ago and I just didn't like the way it sounds. My guess is that they are using equalizers to fake the FIR filters without accounting for the delay-dependent part of the EQ. But that's just my speculation.

I didn't know that Creative was offering this, too.

BTW, I believe that the Razer Kraken 7.1 Headset is technically also just a stereo USB headset with an app not unlike mine.. but that is also just my speculation, as I didn't try out their product yet.

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Re:Show HN: Headphone Enhancer for Techno and 5.1 Movies by super_tycoon on Tuesday December 30, 2014 @07:28PM (#8817648)
Yeah, I agree the Dolby headphone tech isn't quite right. But the Creative one has really impressed me over the years. I've even panic muted my speakers before when I was wearing my headphones because I thought I forgot to switch outputs.

Unfortunately, I don't have a Mac, so I can't compare it your implementation.

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